Mustapha, a kind weaver from the heart of the medina, spoke to us about the Sefrou of his childhood – a Sefrou where Jews and Muslims lived and worked as […]

Though much attention in recent years has focused on sub-Saharan Africans attempting to reach Europe, migration within West Africa is roughly nine times larger than movements from the region toward […]

Here at the Sefrou Association for Multidisciplinary Arts – SAMA – we are always looking for new ways to gather and present knowledge and research with and about Sefrou and its community.  One current […]

Le Maroc, pour moi, né à Fès en 1947, c’est d’abord Sefrou où nous avons habité de 1949 à 1958. Mon père vient d’être nommé directeur de l’antenne locale de […]

The zettata In the narrow sense, a zettata (from the Berber tazettat, “a small piece of cloth”) is a passage toll, a sum paid to a local power (Arabic: zettāt; […]

Though Sefrou is today essentially a regional market, a place where half-commercialized tribesmen meet super-commercialized shopkeepers on free if somewhat less than equal ground, it has not always been thus. […]

Last week, we posted a video of Soufiane Elouahhabie performing his poem, titled Sefrou. In this week’s video, below, Soufiane guides us through what this poem is about. He also […]

Soufiane Elouahhabie is an oral and written poet from Sefrou. He has published his work in print (click here for a link to an earlier post of two poems by […]

In our museum collection is a mezuzah scroll, formerly used by a Jewish household in Sefrou. A mezuzah also once hung on the right-hand post of the bridge to the […]